Due to distribution problems and my chronic inability to get to the comic racks each week for new comics, I never bought any of the JLA B&B appearances off the stands. JLA #1 was the first Justice League adventure I ever read, and I was immediately hooked! I read and reread JLA #1-6 countless times - they were my favorites.

I was eagerly anticipating issue #7 for the two months since I bought #6. It was a couple weeks after the "on-sale" date for issue #7 that I realized the comic had come and gone, and I'd missed it!! While I continued to search out-of-the-way mom-and-pop grocery stores for the elusive "Cosmic Fun-House" comic, I began to take steps to prevent a similar disaster from ever happening again.

I sent away for a subscription to JLA comics. I think it was $1.20 for 12 issues (makes sense), but there may have been a subscription ad offering 12 issues for only $1.00!

The transaction was handled so quickly, I received issue #8 of the bi-monthly title in the mail.

I soon discovered that little else was as exciting as opening the mailbox and seeing finding a comic, folded double and wrapped in brown paper, just waiting to be read. I also soon had subscriptions to Mystery in Space and Showcase, and eventually Fantastic Four, Capt. America, Avengers, and Silver Surfer. All through the 1960s, each trip to get the mail was an adventure!

Hepcat wrote:
But the Wonder Woman title wasn't out of sync with the bulk of DC's superhero offerings in 1961. You're making the mistake of thinking that the Julius Schwartz edited titles such as Flash, Green Lantern and JLA were representative of the rest of the DC line. They were not. The Superman titles, Batman titles and Aquaman were all aimed at the 8-11 year old market. Only the Schwartz titles were a bit more sophisticated. I was nine in the summer of 1961 and I didn't find the Wonder Woman stories more juvenile than the rest of DC's line.

I was 12 that same year. At the time I didn't think in terms of of comics being juvenile or sophisticated. I routinely bought Wonder Woman comics, and I thought the stories were just "stupid." I loved Wonder Woman, her powers, the invisible plane, Paradise Island, the Amazons, etc., but the stories never made sense to me, not even in a comic book sense.

In regards to the letter columns, there was a dead give-away as to whom the comics were aimed: Most columns started their letters with the salutation "Dear Editor," while Wonder Woman was "Dear Wonder Woman." I'm sure many letters to Metropolis Mailbag came in with "Dear Superman," and that there were "Dear Editor" missives sent to Wonder Woman's Clubhouse, but Weisinger and Kanigher tweaked them to fit their own editorial visions.